Clay Harvest and Pottery Day Activity

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Published 2015-02-03

Harvesting clay for a collaborative educational activity Marcus Cuffy and I designed while doing my dissertation research in Dominica between 2012 and 2013. For these activities, we would visit primary schools around Dominica and give a 30-minute talk about archaeology and the island's pre-Columbian history, focusing on ancient technology. Then we would have an arts and crafts lesson in which Marcus and I would teach the students to make coil constructed pottery with local clays that we would later analyze through neutron activation analysis. We incorporated theory, history, heritage, practice and fun into one activity, and then took it to several schools around Dominica. This video contains footage from when Marcus and I were harvesting clay with a local potter who was showing where he collected clay. It also includes a montage of photographs taken during the activities at the various primary schools.

This video was digitally published along with my dissertation, entitled "Pre-Columbian Regional Community Integration in Dominica, West Indies," and is permanently archived in the University of Florida Institutional Repository.
ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00004143/00001/downloads

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